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| - Anatolia Cafe offers good Turkish food, but the service here is a bit lacking.
When I am here, I always order their eggplant with sauce appetizer. It's a cold mixture of eggplant, peppers, and tangy tomato sauce and goes very well with their pita bread. I always save room for their milk pudding for dessert! It's almost like a large square of creamy, sweet jell-o, topped with cinnamon. It's such a unique, delicious dessert that I've never seen anywhere else.
They have a good lunch deal, which is one appetizer and one entree for $10. I had the tabouli and the shepherd salad, which had tomatoes and cucumbers, and lightly spiced chicken kabobs.
The service here could use some improvement. For example, once when I was here with a friend,she ordered the doner, but the waitress rolled her eyes and sighed. When she asked the waitress what was wrong, she said that the doner is street food and there were better options on the menu. I have never heard a waitress undersell a dish, especially the one that the menu itself boasts is the "best in town!" It was very discouraging! When I was here even more recently, a friend and I were seated and waited several minutes before the waiter came. When he approached over our table, he asked, "Are you guys ready because I want to get your order in before I move on to that table over there" and pointed to a group of four just about to sit down. He didn't greet us and he didn't smile.
My conclusion: Their food is pretty good, but perhaps not as tasty as other Mediterranean restaurants around town, and the service is quite disappointing. I wouldn't choose to come to this place myself, but I don't turn it down when a friend is craving it.
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